Jermaine Fowler Quotes

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.

There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

I think it's awesome to be able to make people laugh.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that's really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve... making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

I think in the world we need more comedy. I wish so much that we could embrace that side of us more. I love to escape through watching comedy, and I wish for more of that in the future.

It's better to make people laugh than cry.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world.

I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.